HBO Max releases a seven-episode sketch series, "Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness," starring Larry David and produced by Barack Obama and Michelle Obama with Jeff Schaffer directing.The show mixes scripted scenes and improvisation to lampoon episodes of US history from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to the Apollo moon landing, and it also examines darker chapters such as Watergate and McCarthyism while threading modern debates about vaccine skepticism and presidential conduct.Critics and viewers are divided over the tone: some episodes win laughs and sharp perspective, others feel uneven, and
Higher Ground Productions presents the series as a reflective counterpoint to standard programming for the country's 250th founding milestone.